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The Queen, who awards George Crosses, added that it was due, in large measure, to the courage and dedication over decades of the people of the Royal Ulster Constabulary that Northern Ireland was now a much more calm and stable place to inhabit.

Queen Elizabeth II presented the medal to Constable Paul Slaine, who took it on behalf of the RUC. Constable Slaine lost his legs when an IRA mortar bomb fell in his patrol car in Newry in March 1992, killing his colleague Constable Colleen McMurray. The party also included Constable Susan Wright as well as Assistant Chief Constable William Stewart MBE. He then paraded the medal through the ranks who had assembled there.